Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (by Barre Lyndon; Gilbert Miller, producer) is that highly desirable addition to any theatre season, a smart, smooth, crook play. The fact that the crooks involved are English considerably increases the play's novelty, for Playwright Lyndon's lawbreakers are scarcely the Edward G. Robinson type. They dress shabbily, do not use firearms and are abjectly terrified every time a tall, fatherly police sergeant appears to question or scold them. Even their slang-in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million...
...good Dean Landis is as smooth as silk...
...this purpose--giving the Freshmen a chance to smooth out the workings of the House Plan--a generous program of dinning privileges was granted last year to all prospective House members. Upperclassmen may invite Freshmen once a week to join them at their festive board, anytime throughout the year, and during the period just preceding the final decision Freshmen may have fourteen meals even without invitations. This effort on the part of the University is about as liberal as could be desired...
...years the Prince of Wales exhibited on all occasions and all over the world a dazzling show of interest. Those few who know the new King best know that he and his Queen know much and care greatly and intelligently for the welfare of their subjects and the smooth functioning of the State...
...filed out in their customary dignity without either the attorneys or the courtroom audience realizing that they had witnessed the reception by the Supreme Court of an historic document: Franklin Roosevelt's message to Congress recommending a reorganization of the judicial branch of the Government-an oil-smooth state paper that packed terrific political punch...